Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a
debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group
newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of their publications
ran that essay first), and some of the Beijing-based newspapers. The debate
has gotten rather heated, and [...]

This interview is with an outspoken education official from Sichuan named Lin Qiang and was featured in a recent issue of Southern Weekend, a newspaper based out of Guangzhou, known (in the past), for some more independent, hard-hitting news and coverage of events.
Lin Qiang had been chosen to be a torch-bearer and was also invited [...]